Michael Leimstädtner
Principal Engineer at makandra
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Leimstädtner is a Principal Engineer based in Augsburg with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in frontend technologies like CSS/LESS/JavaScript while routinely designing backends and APIs. Rising through multiple technical and leadership roles at makandra, he combines deep UI craftsmanship with pragmatic system design and project delivery. A Computer Science and Multimedia BSc student, he pairs academic grounding with practical fluency in languages beyond the web stack (C, C#, C++, Java, Python). Multilingual and well-traveled, he brings cross-cultural communication skills to distributed teams and client work. Outside of work he channels creativity into music and travel, which often inspires user-centric interface decisions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Informatik und Multimedia, Bachelor’s Degree Informatik und Multimedia at University of Augsburg
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (54)
cucumber10
mvc10
rails10
progressive-enhancement10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
clamp10
ruby-on-rails10
server-side-rendering9
ajax-request9
multiline9
hypermedia9
cross-browser8
lang8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
makandra/rails_state_machine
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Rails State Machine is an ActiveRecord-bound state machine.
Contributions:9 reviews, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 1 month
activerecordrailsstate-machine
makandra/cucumber_priority
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Overridable step definitions for Cucumber
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 1 month
cucumber
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